Re:Formula 1: The secret aerodynamicist reveals design concepts
by justin66 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:32PM
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> Is there some sort of feedback when you're really close?
If you watch the practice for the race coming up shortly in Australia, you'll see one corner in particular where pretty much everyone including the fastest guys slid off the track. So a lot of it's a feel thing, but you've also got engineering data telling you all the measurable stuff about how the car is performing, which you can then feed into a computer simulator which knows the exact (one hopes) layout of the race track.
One of the younger guys who qualified surprisingly well supposedly spent hundreds of hours on a PC simulator before this latest race.
If you watch the practice for the race coming up shortly in Australia, you'll see one corner in particular where pretty much everyone including the fastest guys slid off the track. So a lot of it's a feel thing, but you've also got engineering data telling you all the measurable stuff about how the car is performing, which you can then feed into a computer simulator which knows the exact (one hopes) layout of the race track.
One of the younger guys who qualified surprisingly well supposedly spent hundreds of hours on a PC simulator before this latest race.